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Show PONY EXPRESS CELEBRATION How the old Pony Express operated operat-ed during the Civil war and how it is to be re-enacted this month, is told in the Union Pacific magazine, which is being distributed. Buffulo Hll's nephew, William E. Cody Goodwin, Good-win, will lead off on the first lap from St. Joseph Missouri on August 31. The run will end at San Francisco Francis-co on California's Admission diiy, September 9. The fastest Pony Express Ex-press record of 7 days and 17 hours, whic hwas made with President Lincoln's Lin-coln's inaugural address in 1864, may be broken, although the cele-call cele-call attention to the Pony Expres; bration this year is designated to rather than to break records. The route of the San FranclseoOverland Llmitod of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific, excepfthat the train goes through Omaha and the Pony Express Ex-press started at St. Joseph. Of the 61 Pony Express "riders recorded in history, 6 survive Charles Cliff, of St. Joseph, who may ride for a few blocks in St. Joseph before turning over his mount to Buffalo Bill's j nephew, W. H. Streeper of Farming-j Farming-j ton, Utah, Tom Ranaham of Los An-jgeles, An-jgeles, Charles Becker of Westfall. j Oregon and John Seebeck and Wil-iliam Wil-iliam Pridham, both of Almeda, Call-, Call-, fornia. j The Pony Express lasted froin Ap-iril Ap-iril 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, when the Pacific Telegraph was completed Many of the pony expressmen later ! became drivers for Ben "Holladay's 'stage line that was discontinued upon up-on the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, connecting the Union and Central Pacific's. The Pony Express required the services of 80 riders, 420 horses, 190 stations and 400 station men. The longest continuous trip throughout a formal jrest period was 322 miles made by 'Buffalo Bill at the age of 16. ! |